emerging mplayer wants to downgrade my linux-headers!

[smolloy]

I'm trying to emerge mplayer, but it insists on downgrading my sys-kernel/linux-headers from 2.6.21 to 2.6.19.2-r2. I'd rather not do this because I'm not sure what other effects that will have, but an unsure as how to proceed. I've tried adding ">=media-video/mplayer-1.0.20070622" to package.mask, but that doesn't help. Can anyone advise how to get around this?

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sabayonx86-64 ~ # emerge -atv media-video/mplayer

These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N    ] media-video/mplayer-1.0.20070622  USE="X a52 aac aalib alsa arts dga dts dv dvb dvd dvdread encode gif gtk iconv ipv6 ivtv jack joystick jpeg libcaca lirc live livecd mad mmx mp3 musepack opengl png quicktime real samba sdl speex sse sse2 theora truetype unicode v4l v4l2 vorbis x264 xinerama xv xvid xvmc -3dnow -3dnowext (-altivec) -amrnb -amrwb -bidi -bindist -bl -cddb -cdparanoia -cpudetection -custom-cflags -debug -directfb -doc -dvdnav -enca -esd -fbcon -ftp -ggi -lzo -md5sum -mmxext -mp2 -nas -openal -oss -pnm -radio -rar -rtc -srt (-svga) -tga -tivo (-vidix) (-win32codecs) -xanim -zoran" VIDEO_CARDS="mga s3virge tdfx vesa" 7,445 kB
[ebuild     UD]  sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.19.2-r2 [2.6.21] 4,232 kB

Total: 2 packages (1 downgrade, 1 new), Size of downloads: 11,676 kB

Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] no

[smolloy]

Never mind.

I discovered it was the "ivtv" USE flag that was pulling in the old linux-headers, so I put "/media-player/mplayer -ivtv" into package.use, and it works now.

[DontPanic]

Never mind.

I discovered it was the "ivtv" USE flag that was pulling in the old linux-headers, so I put "/media-player/mplayer -ivtv" into package.use, and it works now.

I'd love to learn how you figured out it was "ivtv" causing this problem. I've been scratching my head on this problem also, and I couldn't find anywhere a dependency for an older version of linux-headers.

[smolloy]

I'd love to learn how you figured out it was "ivtv" causing this problem. I've been scratching my head on this problem also, and I couldn't find anywhere a dependency for an older version of linux-headers.

I don't quite remember how I figured this out, but it was probably a combination of using the -atv flags on the emerge command to get as much information as possible, and reading through the mplayer ebuild file.